I'll second this. Embedded system development is highly specialised and usually involves bare-metal coding on limited hardware - sounds like something you'd enj

I'll second this. Embedded system development is highly specialised and usually involves bare-metal coding on limited hardware - sounds like something you'd enjoy given your background. Modern computing has become far too generalised for the same sort of development - without all the levels of abstraction you've encountered, it'd be nearly impossible to develop something in a reasonable timeframe. I'm not defending it, but I think if you tried to develop something using such classical methods, you'd end up taking 10x as long creating the finished product. Price of progress I'm afraid.